I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.